prepare_mlvu.md

January 15, 2026 · View on GitHub

Prepare MLVU Dataset

Step 1: download MLVU dataset from huggingface

git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/MLVU/MVLU

Denote the root directory of download MLVU dataset as mlvu_root, it should has the following structure:

${mlvu_root}/
├── MLVU/
    ├── json
        ...
    ├── video
        ...
├── figs/

Step 2: Build MLVU dataset

cd evaluation
python scripts/utils/build_mlvu_dataset.py --hf_root ${mlvu_root}

The file structure is as follows:

evaluation/
├── dataset/
    ├── mlvu/
        ├── mlvu.json
├── ...